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Christ Church Halton (United Reformed/Methodist)
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Service Times
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JUNE 2008
Sunday 22nd June 2008 Refugee Sunday
10.30am Morning Worship led Revd Georgina Brotherton
Sunday 29th June 2008
10.30am Morning Worship led by members of Christ Church Worship Team
JULY 2008
Sunday 6th July 2008 Conference Sunday
10.30am All Age Worship led by Revd Georgina Brotherton
Sunday 13th July NCH Sunday
10.30am Morning Worship led by Revd Georgina Brotherton (this will be Georgina's last service for Christ Church before moving to a new pastorate in Wiltshire).
The general pattern of services for the month is:-
Sunday Morning: 10.30am - 11.30am (with Junior Church)
Sunday Evening: (first in the month) 6.00pm
Tuesday Communion: 7.15pm (first in the month)
1st Sunday All Age Worship
2nd Sunday Communion
3rd Sunday Breakfast Communion 9.00am (followed by breakfast)
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Welcome by the Minister
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As Minister of Christ Church, Halton I extend a warm welcome to everyone interested in visiting our church for worship, fellowship, support and friendship. If you are not familiar with our church I hope you will take time to visit us. You will be made most welcome. Being a Local Ecumenical Partnership church, in both Methodist and United Reformed traditions, we welcome people of any or no previous church affiliation to join with us in learning more about the Christian faith.
We have a thriving Junior Church who continue their own program of learning, but are happy for those too young to join Junior Church to stay with their carer throughout the service.
United in love of Christ but at various stages of the faith journey we also meet at other times for prayer, praise and a variety of fellowship groups. So no matter whereabouts you are in faith we would be pleased if you would come and travel alongside us. Our church has a full progamme of events and activities to suit all ages and abilities.
In Christ's service, Georgina
'Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will'. (Romans 12:2 NIV)
Lord Jesus Christ, renew and refresh us as we travel the path you have chosen. Be our guide and our goal, our energy and our commitment, our hope and our certainty. Open our hearts and our minds so we may see you working in and throughout the whole world. Make us channels of your goodness and mercy. Amen
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- We believe that God is leading us to serve Christ through the guidance of the Holy Spirit
-To meet regularly for worship and prayer
-To provide a community of peace, friendship and support for all ages
-To develop the spiritual and social growth of all associated with the partnership
-To maintain and develop relationships with our parent denominations and with other local churches
-To be a spiritual and social resource within the local community, working alongside other people of faith or of no faith
-To share in the pursuit of peace, justice and the integrity of creation.
It was for these reasons that the two participating churches, the Halton Methodist Church and the Halton United Reformed Church, came together out of a deep conviction that, if the church is to be a vital part of the community in Halton, then new initiatives in mission are necessary.
(from the Constitution of Christ Church circa 1989)
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Brief History of Christ Church
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Christ Church is a Local Ecumenical Partnership bringing together Halton Methodist Church and Halton United Reformed Church. These two churches started worshipping together at Easter 1988.
The congregations of Halton Methodist Church and Halton United Reformed Church united to become a Local Ecumenical Project known as Christ Church Halton. The first meeting of the Christ Church Council was held on July 20th 1989 and a celebratory service was held on October 1st 1989. On November 6th 1989 Halton URC agreed to ask their Trustees to offer the buildings and site for tender. Plans were made for a new £600,000 Christ Church Halton by JH Langtry-Langton and the builders were WV Patrick Ltd. The old chapel was closed on October 14th 1990 and the start of building was on May 5th 1992: the URC was demolished by September 1992. The takeover at the new church was on April 9th 1993 and the church opened on Easter Sunday 1993.
(extract reproduced with the permission of John Gilleghan MBE)
The former Methodist Church, which had the larger membership, was demolished in April 1991 to make way for the new Christ Church building. The former United Reformed Church was vacated in February 1992, the building and land being sold in order to invest the proceeds in the new building. Services and all associated activities, from March 1992 until the the new building was completed, were held in the local schools.
The two churches came together with a deep conviction that, if the church was to be a vital part of the community in Halton, new initiatives in mission were necessary. We believe that Christ was, and is still, calling us into this joint venture, that we may together worship, witness and serve in the midst of the neighbourhood in which we are situated. See our Mission Statement to the left of this section.
The Methodist tradition in Halton dates from 1810 and the Congregational (later part of the URC) from 1925. The extract above and a full account of all denominations in Halton and surrounding areas may be found under "Churches and Chapels" on pages 47-57 of local historian John Gilleghan's Halton: the story of an East Leeds Village (Leeds: Kingsway Press, 2004).
Past & Present Ministers of Christ Church
1986 Revd Marlene Wilkinson
1993 Revd Howard Smith
1995 Revd Keith Hunt
1996 Revd Ruth Crofton
2001 Revd Robert J Kitching
2006 Revd Georgina Brotherton
See John Gilleghan's Halton for a list of ministers of the two churches prior to this period.
November 2007
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